C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people

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Thai Society/Culture, Web

BooksThailand.com

A few weeks ago, my bathroom reading materials had dwindled down to the point of having to reread some old favorites. Then, while browsing a Thai-related forum, I spotted a…

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June 1, 2011
Chillin', Photos

Old photos of HB

This photo gallery of Huntington Beach from the 1920’s shows just how many derricks there used to be on and near the beach. I had no idea how many had…

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August 22, 2011
Web

Hisashiburi ni McSweeney’s

I got stuck editing a thesis this weekend when all I wanted to do was play with the baby and chill out, so this struck a note: Footnotes, Endnotes, and…

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September 8, 2008
  • Oh, baby!,  Photos

    baby and mommy

    April 15, 2009 /

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  • Gaming,  Web

    online scrabble solitaire

    April 15, 2009 /

    deepleap There seems to be an occasional bug that creates an infinite loop of opening dialog boxes. If this happens to you, don’t panic. Hold down the Enter key on your keyboard and it should reset the page for you shortly. Between this bug and the autoplay nature of the home page, it makes it impossible to keep the site open in your browser, tho.

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    Solution: The FINALS Error Code TFAV1012

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    Pokemon Go in Thailand – Day 2

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  • Oh, baby!,  Photos

    chimpira max

    April 12, 2009 /

    More pasta. Or else.

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    Psst… Mommy says it’s BEDTIME!

    January 8, 2010

    Can sit by himself

    June 5, 2008

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    December 5, 2010
  • Society & Culture,  Web

    Russian dogs ride the subway

    April 12, 2009 /

    They live in the suburbs and commute to the city to scam, eat, and live another day. The Japanese wish they’d thought of it first.

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  • Music,  Oh, baby!,  Old Blog Entries (archives),  Web

    Another music site for Max

    April 12, 2009 /

    Tone Matrix chill chill chill UPDATE 4/15/09: Also, BallDroppings is the dope unko.

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    September 5, 2011

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    December 10, 2016
  • Chillin',  Web

    Amish Twitter

    April 11, 2009 /

    Order telegrams over the web. Note: This is an experiment. I’ve cross posted this link to my Facebook and Twitter accounts, so sorry if I’ve spammed your intarwebs with it today (although I refrained from posting it at Linked In, in case a powerful Amish CEO was perusing my bio).

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  • Food,  Thai Society/Culture

    Steamed Beetles

    April 11, 2009 /

    BEFORE: Not sure what kind of beetles these are, but they need to be soaked (drowned?) to induce excretion before cooking. AFTER: Steamed with lemon grass and kaffir lime leaves. This preparation is typical of Thai/Laos peasant cooking, and very healthy, AND very delicious.

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  • Thai Society/Culture,  Web,  Work

    Buffalo x 8

    April 10, 2009 /

    First of all, Wikipedia has done more for me over the years than anti-fungal ointment, and depending on if you smelled my shoes when I had athlete’s foot (actually, if you were in any enclosed space with my shoes, you most likely did smell them), that’s saying an awful lot. Secondly, it took me a good fifteen minutes to truly understand this (grammatically correct) sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo I’m totally using that for a class, because in the Thai language, calling someone a buffalo is a hugely insulting and funny thing, and “buffalo” is one English word every Thai person knows. Just mentioning it in…

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  • Videos

    Max, bring the beat!

    April 10, 2009 /

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  • Food,  Society & Culture,  Web

    good or bad?

    April 8, 2009 /

    Philippine fishermen net and eat rare megamouth shark My initial reaction when I read the headline was that of disgust, but I guess the main question is whether the animal would have gone to waste if they hadn’t eaten it… Would the WWF have preserved it for study? If so, why didn’t they offer to buy it? Would the fisherman have gone hungry if they hadn’t eaten it?

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